858 Quotes by Alice Walker

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Now I understand that all great teachers love us. This is essentially what makes them great. I also understand that it is this love that never dies, and that, having once experienced it, we have the confidence always exhibited by well-loved humans, to continue extending this same love.

I don’t focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

Hard times’ is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa’s ‘hard times’ were made harder by them.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone.

Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What’s to worry about?

But I don’t think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this is the youngest us felt.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence – as it saves most writers who live in ‘interesting’ oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

It didn’t take long to realize I didn’t hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don’t mean nothing if you don’t ast why you here, period.